Reply to Dew’s (2007) commentary: “Pre-adaptation, exaptation and technology speciation: a comment on Cattani (2006)”

Radically Questioning the Principle of the Least Restrictive Alternative: A Reply to Nir Eyal; Comment on “Nudging by Shaming, Shaming by Nudging”

In his insightful editorial, Nir Eyal explores the connections between nudging and shaming. One upshot of his argument is that we should question the principle of the least restrictive alternative in public health and health policy. In this commentary, I maintain that Eyal’s argument undermines only a rather implausible version of the principle of the least restrictive alternative and I sketch ...

Technological pre-adaptation, speciation, and emergence of new technologies: how Corning invented and developed fiber optics

This article investigates how established firms innovate and even initiate new technological trajectories. We build on and expand the notion of technological speciation to describe how a new technology emerges when a firm leverages its technological knowledge into a new application domain. Current research on technological speciation does not investigate how firms accumulate the technological k...

Commentary: “Rabies in Iranian Traditional Medicine” & Reply to Commentary on “Rabies in Iran: Past, Present and Future”

Assessing Organizational Readiness for Change; Comment on “Development and Content Validation of a Transcultural Instrument to Assess Organizational Readiness for Knowledge Translation in Healthcare Organizations: The OR4KT”

This commentary provides an overview of the organizational readiness for change (ORC) literature over the last decade, with respect to prevailing definitions, theories, and tools to guide assessment of ORC in preparation for implementation. The development of the OR4KT by Gagnon et al is an important contribution to this body of work. This commentary highlights the strengths of the OR4KT includ...

Pathology of Quranic scientific comment regarding the commentary partowi az Quran

More than 700 verses of the holey Quran refer to such scientific fields as ontology, physics and biology. Muslim commentators, therefore, have attended to scientific comment of Quran to prove scientific statements in it. Increasing development of experimental sciences and technology during last century caused commentators pay much attention to scientific comment of Quran. Partowi az Quran, a Qu...